Does Ubuntu have the biggest software repository?

[pluckypigeon]

I was just wondering if Ubuntu has the biggest software repository out of all the other linuxes.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

[handy]

No.

Have a search, this one has been asked plenty of times in the past.

[pluckypigeon]

No.

Have a search, this one has been asked plenty of times in the past.

Thanks for your useful comment..... You must know of a really good search engine...

[Dr Small]

Thanks for your useful comment. You must know of a really good search engine.
Yeah, it's called Uboontu (http://uboontu.com) ;)

[pluckypigeon]

Yeah, it's called Uboontu (http://uboontu.com) ;)

Hey, thanks alot!

[albinootje]

I was just wondering if Ubuntu has the biggest software repository out of all the other linuxes.

Don't know, but I can imagine that Debian, with Stable,Testing and Unstable has more.

I'm also not sure how close Ubuntu is following Debian nowadays :)

[-kg-]

I was just wondering if Ubuntu has the biggest software repository out of all the other linuxes.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks

I also wouldn't be surprised if Linspire/Freespire had more. They've been around for quite a while.

[albinootje]

I also wouldn't be surprised if Linspire/Freespire had more. They've been around for quite a while.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linspire


Linspire's CNR (originally "Click'N'Run") is a software distribution service based on Debian's APT.
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Currently CNR has over 38,000 different software packages, ranging from simple applications to major commercial works such as Win4Lin and StarOffice.

That would be 20 thousand packages more than Debian.
Hmmm... :|

[pluckypigeon]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linspire

That would be 20 thousand packages more than Debian.
Hmmm... :|


I couldn't help noticing:

Working state Discontinued
Latest stable release: 6.0 / October 10, 2007

:-k

[albinootje]

I couldn't help noticing:

Working state Discontinued
Latest stable release: 6.0 / October 10, 2007

:-k



On August 8, 2008, Andreas Typaldos, CEO of Xandros, announced that Linspire would be discontinued in favor of Xandros, Freespire would change its base code from Ubuntu to Debian, and the Linspire brand would cease to exist.[5]

See also :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freespire
http://wiki.freespire.org/index.php/Main_Page

[bobbocanfly]

Don't know, but I can imagine that Debian, with Stable,Testing and Unstable has more.

I'm also not sure how close Ubuntu is following Debian nowadays :)

We try to follow them as closely as possible, while still giving users the awesomeness that is Ubuntu. Every release cycle (once every 6 months) we sync packages from Debian. Ubuntu is really 90% Debian, 10% new Ubuntu stuff. In some parts (default stuff that comes in the desktop, installation) we differ greatly from Debian, but a large amount of packages in Universe are copied from Debian into Ubuntu, completely unchanged.

(Full disclosure, Ubuntu developer here)

[Dr Small]

(Full disclosure, Ubuntu developer here)

You probably shouldn't let top secret information loose like that! ;)

[bobbocanfly]

You probably shouldn't let top secret information loose like that! ;)

Heh, saves users PM'ing me asking if I'm a dev. Seriously saves like a couple hours a month.

Meanwhile back at the point:
I think we actually have a larger software repository than Debian. We take all of Debians packages (from Unstable and some from Experimental), plus we add quite a few Ubuntu specific packages (though we work with Debian as much as possible to try and get non ubuntu-specific patches into Debian). Though as we do not take all packages from Debian Experimental (and I have no idea how many more packages there are in there than Unstable), I am not totally sure.

[SomeGuyDude]

IMagicOS used to claim it had access to MILLIONS of applications, so that'd probably be the biggest. :lolflag:

Anyway, this is a rough question since (as has been mentioned in other threads) Debian tends to split up packages into little pieces. So something you install on Slack might be 3 packages, but 40 on Debian (I believe they used X.org with some exact numbers, whoever mentioned it).

Now, who has the biggest number of discrete applications? That's a hard-*** question.

[handy]

Thanks for your useful comment..... You must know of a really good search engine...

:lolflag: Yes, Scroogle (http://www.scroogle.org/) actually.

The reason I answered like that is there is currently another thread on the same topic.

[pluckypigeon]

:lolflag: Yes, Scroogle (http://www.scroogle.org/) actually.

The reason I answered like that is there is currently another thread on the same topic.

I'm yet to find it. Maybe you dreamed it.

[handy]

I'm yet to find it. Maybe you dreamed it.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1030622